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Evanescence Concert Review (2/13/04) 20 years ago
Do you remember the scene in Spinal Tap where the lead guitarist leaves the band and they have to figure out how to play a concert without him? Well, a few months back, my wife and I got tickets to the Evanescence concert. Then we find out that the concert is canceled for unexplained reasons and…

The third and fourth days of shooting... 20 years ago
The suspenseful, exciting, better than sliced bread conclusion to the Evil Ken Chronicles! At long last, I'm writing the exciting conclusion to the shooting, trying to get down the details before my memory fades and I forget all kinds of things. I almost forgot a few things. Although I wish I had…

The second day of shooting... 20 years ago
My last entry , documenting for posterity the first day of shooting, was well received by the members of the cast and crew. In other words, I managed to not offend anybody, which probably just means that I should try harder. In a sense, I'm doing this as a semi-surrogate journal for Oren Kaplan…

Crazy dimensions in cooking: Movie Catering 20 years ago
My cow-orker Oren is quite the film maker. His first "real" movie was featured in a film festival next to movies with a budget more than a hundred bucks or so. It's actually quite good. This time around, he was kinda recruiting for the cast, so I offered to help out in any sort of capacity that…

Random Stories 20 years ago
Organizing that stack o' papers that you've been wanting to organize for the past year or so really sucks. Public service announcement: Sort your damn papers before they fill a crate! It's not like anything crucially important had gone missing, but it was nice to have everything in the proper place…

Finally, a robot that people want! 20 years ago
People have been predicting that robots would take over since maybe the 19th century. In the eighties, it seemed like the time of robots was really close.. Computers were small enough to actually fit inside of a robot, we could make robot arms. People started seriously thinking about robots doing…

Why I like paper ballots 20 years ago
If you look at any data sheet for a piece of electronics or any EULA for a packaged piece of software, you will notice terms along the lines of "Life-critical systems" or "Life-support systems". For example, this is a quote from the last page of the Fairchild Semiconductor 74ls154 data sheet: LIFE…

The YOU-CAN-SPAM act of 2003 20 years ago
Every time I think that there's hope for our average congressmen , that they won't be little cheating weasels who are bought by the highest bidder , they prove to me that all they care about is lobbyists. Now that I have my email address scrambled, I can track things. I've made a number of…

Random Stories 20 years ago
Random stories: It's interview season. However, all of the good stories are the sort of thing that's not professional or legally advisable to post on my webpage. We've all got some really good ones, too. I've got some great stories about something else that I feel like I really shouldn't be…

How they do things in Berkeley 20 years ago
If you've been reading on my page, you will notice the occasional mention of Berkeley, playing with fire, my crazy artist friend Kiki , and other such things. This used to happen at two locations, the Crucible , and the Shipyard . However, due to some earlier-mentioned fun with the Berkeley…